Ian Dury

Ian Dury

Born: May 12, 1942
Died: March 27, 2000
in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was a British singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and previously Kilburn and the High Roads.

Movies for Ian Dury...

Ian Dury: Rare And Unseen
Title: Ian Dury: Rare And Unseen
Released: May 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Here is the movie for all the Clever Trevors and Billericay Dickies out there! A stunning and truly 'Rare and Unseen' look back at Ian Dury, poet, thinker, geezer and all round crowd-pleaser. He wasn't half a clever b'stard. The earliest known TV performance from the London Programme 1976. Three great interviews with much missed Mancunian Tony Wilson who died in 2007. Final Richard and Judy interview and live performance restored for widescreen. Includes eight live musical performances with the Kilburns and the Blockheads: 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll', 'Sweet Gene Vincent', 'Upminster Kid', 'Rough Kids', 'Billy Bentley', 'England's Glory', 'Blockheads' and 'Geraldine'. Is that enough of the old reading matter for you? This ain't a bleeding library… Oi! Oi!
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Ian Dury Sex Drugs Rock & Roll & Other Assorted Glimpses
Title: Ian Dury Sex Drugs Rock & Roll & Other Assorted Glimpses
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Probably the most atypical star in the history of popular music, Ian Dury overcame Polio to be one of the most iconic figures of the late punk movement. With his supercharged live performances and unique blend of sexually poetic lyrics, Ian Dury achieved critical aclaim from both his fans and fellow artists. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads to his superstardom with the Blockheads, Ian Dury was a complicated cocktail of warmth, wit, bile and bombast... quite simply he was unique and unforgettable. To discover the legend that is Ian Dury this DVD contains amazing live performances of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, What A Waste, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Sweet Gene Vincent and many other hits from his heyday, alongside in-depth interviews that give an insight to the man himself.
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Ian Dury - The Promo Videos and Songs
Title: Ian Dury - The Promo Videos and Songs
Character: himself
Released: October 22, 2007
Type: Movie
The Blockheads are an English rock band formed in London in 1977. Originally fronted by lead singer Ian Dury as Ian Dury and the Blockheads or Ian and the Blockheads, the band has continued to perform since Dury's death in 2000. Song listing 1) Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, 2) What A Waste!, 3) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, 4) Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3, 5) I Want To Be Straight, 6) Sueperman's Big Sister
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Father Angelo
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Banned in the UK
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 2005
Type: TV
Four-part series demonstrating different kinds of censorship, such as censorship by the government or of art.
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Top of the Pops: 40th Anniversary 1964 - 2004
Title: Top of the Pops: 40th Anniversary 1964 - 2004
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Forty years is a long time in pop music, but through the swinging sixties, glam rock, punk rock, new romantics, dance, rap boy bands, r'n'b - and all pop points between - Top of the Pops has showcased the finest in chart sounds. The show forms part of nearly everyone's life and the best performances, as seen on this DVD, will remain with us forever.
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Ian Dury & The Blockheads. Hold On To Your Structure
Title: Ian Dury & The Blockheads. Hold On To Your Structure
Released: March 26, 2003
Type: Movie
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Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Title: Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 1999
Type: Movie
Aja was the biggest selling album of Steely Dan's illustrious career. It was the first album by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker as a duo. Fagen and Becker recall the history of the album, along with Peg, Deacon Blues and Josie. Michael McDonald, later of the Doobie Brothers did guest backing vocals on Aja, the late British musician Ian Dury, record producer Gary Katz and the legendary session musicians who worked on Aja also contribute. This is a vivd portrait of a 70's record that is still as fresh and as memorable more than two decades after its release.
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Middleton's Changeling
Title: Middleton's Changeling
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Movie adaptation of the 17th century tragedy play, originally written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
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Title: Classic Albums
Character: Self
Released: April 14, 1997
Type: TV
A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.
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Different for Girls
Title: Different for Girls
Character: Bailiff
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.
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The Crow: City of Angels
Title: The Crow: City of Angels
Character: Noah
Released: August 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman named Sarah, he exacts revenge on his killers -- only to realize his enemy has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.
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Judge Dredd
Title: Judge Dredd
Character: Geiger
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
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Skallagrigg
Title: Skallagrigg
Character: Rendle
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
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The Rainbow Thief
Title: The Rainbow Thief
Character: Bartender
Released: January 19, 1994
Type: Movie
A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.
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Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
Title: Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
Character: Dr Reid
Released: October 27, 1993
Type: Movie
In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell, and his black servant Francis Barber. Staying with a series of hosts, including elderly Jacobite heroine Flora McDonald, Johnson and Boswell encounter traditional Scottish hospitality at first-hand, all the time arguing about politics (and in Boswell's case losing his head over every pretty woman he meets). Meanwhile, Francis and another black servant they encounter provide evidence of the new consciousness emerging in Britain's soon-to-be-independent American colonies.
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Split Second
Title: Split Second
Character: Jay Jay
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
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After Midnight
Title: After Midnight
Character: Harry
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Title: Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Character: Charlie
Released: November 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny messes up, he loses a lot of money, his girlfriend Kate's money. Alone, desperate and on the run from a couple of hit-men, he applies for a job as an entertainer's assistant becoming a dancing bear. Unwittingly learning of secrets around him, his past catches up with him.
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Title: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Character: Terry Fitch
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
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The Voice
Title: The Voice
Character: Kowalsky
Released: April 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.
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Burning Beds
Title: Burning Beds
Character: Harry Winfield
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A comedy in which a German woman falls in love with a British pyromaniac.
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The Raggedy Rawney
Title: The Raggedy Rawney
Character: Weazel
Released: September 20, 1988
Type: Movie
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
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Hearts of Fire
Title: Hearts of Fire
Character: Bones
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
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Rocinante
Title: Rocinante
Character: Jester
Released: November 1, 1986
Type: Movie
England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that interests him, until he meets a mysterious woman in a van, who seems to be on the run from the authorities.
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Title: Chasing Rainbows - A Nation and Its Music
Released: September 14, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: King of the Ghetto
Character: Sammy
Released: May 1, 1986
Type: TV
BBC Drama about racial tensions in London's east end in the 1980s.
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King of the Ghetto
Title: King of the Ghetto
Character: Sammy
Released: May 1, 1986
Type: Movie
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's east end
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Number One
Title: Number One
Character: Teddy Bryant
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
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Ian Dury X.
Title: Ian Dury X.
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Ian Dury, singer/songwriter of Kilburn and the High Roads and the Blockheads, talks about how becoming disabled has affected his life and music.
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Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
Title: Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
Character: Self
Released: March 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Organized by Paul McCartney and the United Nations, these concerts were in response to the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge’s reign, where three million persons perished in Cambodia. During the concerts, McCartney brought three generations of popular musicians together. The older generation included McCartney and the Wings, The Who and members of Procol Harum. The middle generation was represented by Queen and members of Led Zeppelin. Most notably, there was the new generation of mainly New Wavers and Punk Rockers, such as The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Clash, and The Specials.
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Ian Dury and The Blockheads: Rock Goes to College
Title: Ian Dury and The Blockheads: Rock Goes to College
Released: February 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Ian Dury & The Blockheads in concert at Queen's University, Belfast. 3rd February, 1979. * Setlist: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll / I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra / Clevor Trevor / This Is What We Find / Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick / There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards / Sweet Gene Vincent / What A Waste / Blockheads
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If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck
Title: If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Legendary documentary of the 1977 package tour arranged by David Robinson and Andrew Jakeman ("Kake Riviera") after they founded Stiff Records in London, England for five of their artists, and the bands that they concocted for the tour.
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Title: Top of the Pops
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: TV
The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.